A BEST-SELLING ARCHITECTURE BOOK on AMAZON and B&N, and a LA TIMES and a BOOKSENSE BESTSELLER!! 5 printings and nearly 100,000 in print after one year. As featured in DWELL magazine, NY NEWSDAY, the LA TIMES, and the BOSTON GLOBE.

* * * CONGRATULATIONS to Julia Usher for her nomination for a JAMES BEARD AWARD 2008!; MAN MARTIN - DAYS OF THE ENDLESS CORVETTE for winning Georgia's Novel of the Year," and a "One Book, One Community" pick for January 2008; MIROSLAV PENKOV for winning the EUDORA WELTY PRIZE IN FICTION for his story BUYING LENIN (the Southern Review) and for being selected for BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES; MATTHEW FREDERICK - 101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL, a BOOKSENSE bestseller, and a BEST SELLING ARCHITECTURE BOOK (BOOKSENSE, Amazon, B&N, independents) ; to ASHNA GRAVES - DEATH PANS OUT, declared a “Best Mystery of 2007” by Mysterious Reviews; and to CHARLOTTE FORBES – THE GOOD WORKS OF AYELA LINDE – a KIRKUS “BEST BOOK OF 2006”; and CHARLES EUCHNER – THE LAST NINE INNINGS: Inside the Real Game Fans Never See – a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED BEST BASEBALL BOOK OF 2006. * * *

A small, selective agency in Harvard Square, Fairbank Literary Representation is now in its sixth year. Clients range from first-time authors to international best-sellers, prize winning-journalists to professionals at the top of their fields. Our tastes tend toward literary fiction and mysteries/thrillers, memoir, and topical or narrative non-fiction, with a strong interest in women’s voices and class and race issues, quality lifestyle books (food, wine, and design), sports, pop culture, craft, and gift and humor books. We are most likely to pick up works that are of significance, newsworthy, or works that speak to the human condition and the search for a greater truth. But we do have a strong sense of humor!!

* * * ROBIN MOORE * * * international best-selling author of more than 50 books, including The French Connection, The Green Berets, The Hunt For Bin Laden, and Hunting Down Saddam. Fairbank Literary also holds rights to more than thirty of Moore’s previously published works, available for reprint, electronic, game and film rights.
* * * XAVIERA HOLLANDER * * * the “Happy Hooker” first rose to fame in 1972 with the release of her iconic book, THE HAPPY HOOKER, which jumped straight to the top of the bestseller lists, selling nearly 18 million copies. Hollander went on to write more than a dozen subsequent works, and wrote the "Call Me Madam" column in Penthouse Magazine,and in 2004, a memoir, Child No More (Harper Collins, 2004). Her most recent book is The Happy Hooker’s Guide to Sex: 69 Orgasmic Ways to Pleasure a Woman (Skyhorse April 2008)
* * * REX BURNS * * * Edgar winner & host of STARZEncore Mystery Channel’s Anatomy of a Mystery, REX BURNS author of seventeen books, including the long-running Gabe Wagner series for which he was nominated twice for an Edgar, winning once.
* * * JEFFREY FLEISHMAN* * * Pulitzer finalist, LA TIMES Berlin Bureau Chief, and winner of numerous awards.
* * * RICHARD GALLI * * * is the author of the critically acclaimed book, Rescuing Jeffrey, which garnered numerous rave reviews, and a largely autobiographical novel, OF RICE AND MEN – a darkly comic look at war-zone army farming during the Vietnam War (Ballantine, 2006).
* * * DAVID YONKE * * * Religion Editor for The Toledo Blade and an award-winning journalist(Ohio AP journalist of the year, ‘03). Yonke’s Sin, Shame & Secrets - centering on the recent arrest of a Toledo priest for the brutal murder of a nun twenty-four years prior, was released October 2006.
* * * JOHN MCALEER * * * Edgar-winner and author of more than a dozen books. McAleer’s best known books are Rex Stout: A Biography, for which he won an Edgar, and Emerson:Days of Encounter, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and is available for reprint. McAleer’s Korean War book, Unit Pride, was recently reissued by Lyons Press.
* * * PENNY RUDOLPH * * * is a former journalist and corporate magazine editor whose mystery novel, Listen To The Mockingbird was the winner of the 2003 Eppie Award. Her second and third mysteries, Thicker Than Blood, and a sequel, Life Blood.
* * * KATHLEEN QUIGLEY * * * travel and architecture writer for publications such as The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Travel &Leisure, The Wall Street Journal and others, is the author of an upcoming illustrated work Spirit of Summer: At Home in the Thousand Islands. (Rizzoli)
* * * CHARLOTTE FORBES * * * has written for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Narrative Magazine, the Boston Globe, and other national newspapers and magazines. Her story “Sign” was included in the O. Henry Prize Stories (1999). Her new short story collection, The Good Works of Ayela Linde was released May 2006.

MOST RECENT SALES:

CAREERS FOR YOUR CAT, by Anne Dziemianowicz to Ten Speed Press (Crown)

Miro Penkov's debut collection, BULGARI, a country in stories, to Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

HOW TO BE A COWBOY, by Rocco Wachman and Matthew Pellegrini, to Harper Collins.

FOUR BOOK SERIES - based on Matthew Frederick's 101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL to Grand Central, in a major deal for 2010 publication.

Havana Revisited: An Architectural Heritage by Cathryn Griffith to W.W.NORTON

Eppie award-winning thriller writer Penny Rudolph’s fourth novel, Eye of the Mountain God, a southwest mystery involving a new Mexico separatist plot, sold to Toni Plummer at Thomas Dunne books.

Pitched as Toy Story meets Play With Your Food and Bitter With Baggage, with a little Tim Burton sensibility thrown in, Terry Border?s BENT OBJECTS: THE SECRET LIFE OF EVERYDAY THINGS a collection of Border?s ingenious animations of everyday objects using a little wire and a LOT of imagination, resulting in such ridiculous scenarios as a bottle of Dramamine falling ill, a pear looking in a mirror and despairing of its bottom-heavy physique, a real lemon meeting a lemon-juice-holding plastic lemon, and Caribbean seasoning living up to its "Jerk" name, sold to Lisa Clancy at Running Press, by Sorche Fairbank of Fairbank Literary Representation.

Spanish rights to Matthew Frederick's 101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL, to ABADA, by Betty Anne Crawford of Books Crossing Borders, on behalf of Sorche Fairbank at Fairbank Literary Representation.

Rights also sold include simplified Chinese rights to China Machine Press by Betty Anne Crawford of Books Crossing Borders, and to Dongnyok Publishers in Korea; Yapi-Endustri Merkezi in Turkey; and Martins Fontes in Brazil by Cristina Sanmartin of MIT Press.

Playful physicist Aaron Santos uses Enrico Fermi’s estimation method to answer the pop-culture questions we all ponder, such as how many calories are in the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man; how many times you would have to wash your favorite t-shirt before it turned entirely to dryer lint; and how many people are simultaneously achieving an orgasm this second, using basic math we all know in GREAT ESTIMATIONS, a delightful marriage of math, logic and trivia, sold to Lisa Clancy at Running Press by Sorche Fairbank of Fairbank Literary Representation

Journalist (and ex-fantasy geek) Ethan Gilsdorf’s Escape Artists: Travels through the Worlds of Role Playing Freaks, Online Gaming Geeks, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms, an exploration of the appeal of fantasy realms in their various pop-cultural incarnations, via in-the-field reportage at various events, profiles of leading thinkers, psychologists, authors, and player groups, and the author's examination of his own past, sold as a lead Fall 2009 title to Keith Wallman in his first acquisition for The Globe Pequot Press, for World English, by Sorche Fairbank of Fairbank Literary Representation

LEGACY: Building a Better Future for the Next Generation, a THOUSAND WORDS book, by Bob McKinnon, wherein thirty very high-profile citizens from diverse fields voice their concern over a particular issue via individual thousand-word essays—from climate change to commercialism, apathy to aptitude, sold to Mary Norris of Globe Pequot Press as a lead title for Fall 2009, World English,

Promised Virgins, a novel of jihad, Stunning debut fiction set in the Kosovo conflict, by Pulitzer Prize finalist and L.A. Times Cairo Bureau Chief Jeffrey Fleishman, already bearing praise from David Zucchino and Sebastian Rotella, sold to Cal Barksdale at Arcade Publishing for World English, for publication Spring 2009, by Sorche Fairbank of Fairbank Literary Representation

Complex Chinese rights to Matthew Frederick's 101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL, to Uni-Books a division of And Publishing Ltd, by Betty Anne Crawford of Books Crossing Borders, on behalf of Sorche Fairbank at Fairbank Literary Representation.

Foreign rights already sold include Spanish rights to ABADA, and simplified Chinese rights to China Machine Press by Betty Anne Crawford of Books Crossing Borders, and to Dongnyok Publishers in Korea; Yapi-Endustri Merkezi in Turkey; and Martins Fontes in Brazil by Cristina Sanmartin of MIT Press.

Jessica Handler’s Invisible Sisters, a memoir bearing advance praise from Abigail Thomas, author of A Three Dog Life, about loving sisters and losing them, and about coming of age in extraordinary circumstances, in extraordinary bodies, sold to Morgen vanVorst at Public Affairs, for publication Spring 2009, by Sorche Fairbank of Fairbank Literary Representation

Sold late last year in a six figure auction to Rick Wolff, V.P. of Grand Central Publishing, Jonathan J. McCullough's narrative nonfiction book A TALE OF TWO SUBS: AN UNTOLD STORY OF WORLD WAR II, TWO SISTER SHIPS, AND EXTRAORDINARY HEROISM, to be published in time for Father’s Day 2008.

Xaviera Hollander's (a.k.a.THE HAPPY HOOKER)The Happy Hooker’s Guide to Sex: 69 Orgasmic Ways to Pleasure a Woman to Skyhorse Publishing for a spring '08 release.

A COOKIE SWAP FOR ALL SEASONS: Twelve Months of Easy and Inspired Parties
by food writer and acclaimed pastry chef Julia Usher to Gibbs Smith, with related titles to follow

LOVING OURSELVES: The Gay & Lesbian Guide to Self-Esteem
by Dr. Kim Hardin, as a new and updated edition to Alyson Books

MAJOR SALES, 2007 and older:

TO FULL TERM: A MOTHER’S TRIUMPH OVER MISCARRIAGE by Darci Klein, to Berkley/Penguin (June 2007) ; THE UNCOMMON QUILTER by Jeanne Williamson, to Potter Craft (Clarkson Potter/Crown); THE WARRIOR’S PATH: Reflections Along an Ancient Route by Casey Clabough to University of Tennessee Press; DAYS OF THE ENDLESS CORVETTE by Syndicated Cartoonist and Flannery O’Conner scholar Man Martin, to Carroll & Graf; THE GREEN BERETS the #1 Bestseller by Robin Moore, a paperback new edition to Skyhorse Publishing; EXECUTION'S DOORSTEP: True Stories of the Innocent and Near-Damned by Leslie Lytle to University Press of New England ; LITTLE LEAGUE, BIG DREAMS. A fascinating and intimate glimpse into the Little League World Series, 2005 season, by Charles Euchner. (Sourcebooks) ; Penny Rudolph’s sequel to her critically acclaimed THICKER THAN BLOOD, tentatively titled LIFE BLOOD to Poisoned Pen Press (2007); Paperback reprint rights to Penny Rudolph’s Eppie-winning LISTEN TO THE MOCKINGBIRD, a historical (Civil War) suspense story, to Poisoned Pen Press; Author of THROUGH ANOTHER LENS (North Point Press) Wendy Madar’s mystery debut, writing as Ashna Graves, a Oregon mining mystery titles DEATH PANS OUT, to Poisoned Pen Press (2007); 101 THINGS I LEARNED IN ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Surviving an Architectural Education, by Matthew Frederick, to MIT PRESS; SPIRIT OF SUMMER: At Home In The 1000 Islands, by Kathleen Quigley, to Rizzoli; THICKER THAN BLOOD, by Penny Rudolph, to Poisoned Pen Press; URBAN-COUNTRY STYLE: Big City Attitude, Small Town Charm a design book by Nancy Gent and Elizabeth Betts-Hickman to Gibbs-Smith (2007); THE SORCERER'S CIRCLE by award-winning mystery writer Michael Siverling, To St. Martin’s Press; SOLAR REVOLUTION: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry, by Travis Bradford, president of the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development, To MIT Press; ARE THERE ANY GOOD JOBS LEFT? Survival in the Age of the Disposable Worker, by political historian and career transition executive R William Holland, sold to Praeger/ Greenwood; O. Henry Prize-winner Charlotte Forbes's THE GOOD WORKS OF AYELA LINDE, following the life of an illegitimate daughter of a Mexican dressmaker, and the choices she makes, to Arcade (dist. Hachette); Harvard lecturer Adam K. Webb's BEYOND THE GLOBAL CULTURE WAR, a political, historical, and philosophical account of the clash between liberal modernity and the forces that resist it, identifying the four ethos that have contended in all civilizations throughout history, to Routledge, for their Global Horizons Series; Author of the "On The Beaten Path" Interstate Guidebook Series Dianne Perrier's THE RED TRACE OF TAIL LIGHTS: Celebrating 50 Years of the Interstate Highway System, to University Press of Florida; Peace activist and founder of Reconciliation Works, Stacy Bannerman's WHEN THE WAR CAME HOME: An Inside Account of Citizen Soldiers and The Families Left Behind, to Continuum; In what has been hailed as the Vietnam M*A*S*H* , author Richard Galli's OF RICE AND MEN a darkly comic look at war-zone Army farming in the Vietnam war and the attempts of one Civil Affairs unit to win the "hearts and minds" of the people there, to Ballantine; TRAVEL GUIDE SERIES - five book deal Off the Beaten Path meets “On The Beaten Path” in a new series of travel guides focusing on the great Interstate Highways of the United States; part history, part reference, and part guide to roadway enjoyment, sold to the University Press of Florida, for publication in 2008, 2009, 2010; Award-winning journalist and Religion Editor for The Toledo Blade, David Yonke’s, SIN, SHAME, AND SECRETS: Crime and Cover-up in the Catholic Church, sold to Continuum; THE LAST NINE INNINGS: How Baseball Works, by Charles Euchner, in which the author uses the Seventh Game of the 2001 World Series to explore the inner logic of baseball in the 21st Century, to Sourcebooks as part of a two-book deal; HUNTING DOWN SADDAM: The Inside Story of the Search and Capture by best-selling author Robin Moore in a major, six-figure deal to St. Martin's Press.

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UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND COURSES (2008):
- Solstice Summer Writers' Conference Pine Manor, MA (June 27)
- League of Vermont Writers, Burlington VT (July 19)
- Grub Street Course: The Hook and the Book, Boston, MA (August 9-10)
- San Francisco Writing For Change Conference, CA, (August 16, 17)
- Grub Street Course: Your First Page: Friend or Foe? , Boston, MA (September 8)
- Surry International Writer’s Conference, Surry, BC, (October 24-26)
- CRIME BAKE!

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